Systematic Review Analysis

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SYSTEMATIC REVIEW ANALYSIS
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Introduction
While working in healthcare facilities, healthcare workers, and nursing professionals are
exposed to several sharp objects such as surgical instruments, scalpels, glasses, lancets, hollow
bore needles, catheter stylets, and different blood bore needles (Suliman et al., 2018). As per the
Choi et al. (2018), while working in healthcare facilities, every 1 in 10 healthcare workers
undergoes such sharp instrument injury each year, due to which they suffer from several
complications. The primary complications of sharp injuries among nursing professionals include
blood-borne infection, contagious infections, viral and bacterial infections and so on (Pradhan,
2017). As per Hada et al. (2018), globally, more than 66,000 hepatitis B viral infections, 16,000
hepatitis C virus and 1000 HIV infections were caused by the sharp object infections among the
nursing and other healthcare professionals in the year 2000. Besides sharp injuries, other effects
such as higher cost of post-exposure related treatment and medication, related disabilities, the
gap in their service or learning due to infection and economic impact could affect the mental and
economic aspect of patient’s health (Besey & Zengin, 2019).
Despite prevalent and common in the healthcare facilities throughout the world, very
limited research process has been conducted so that the evidence regarding the sharp instrument
related injury among nursing professionals could be developed (Arli & Bakan, 2018). The
primary aim of this evidence-based article is to review a systematic research article and critically
evaluate the population studied, intervention given and the outcomes that have been considered
in the research article. Further through a detailed assessment of the paper, the relevance of the
literature review, quality of the review process, the precision of the results and discussion
analysis would be provided in this paper. The research article which has been selected for the

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review process in this paper is by Hambridge, Nichols and Endacott (2016), that discusses the
impact of sharp instrument related injuries on the student nursing professionals.
Review problem/focus/ question
The primary aim of the selected research article is to explain the risk factors associated
to the use of sharp instruments and maintain their safety in the healthcare facility so that due to
such injuries their personal and professionals life could not hamper (Hambridge, Nichols &
Endacott, 2016). Further, due to the scarcity of research articles about the topic selected for this
assessment, a systematic review process was conducted for the research process (Arli & Bakan,
2018). The research question selected for this process was to understand the impact and extent of
sharp injuries on the nursing professionals who have recently joined the nursing profession.
Hence, the primary focus of the studied population the systematic review process was the pre-
registration student nursing professionals so that the impact of the process could be determined
(Brett et al., 2014). The intervention which was used to churn the research papers included and to
collect the useful data for the assessment would be methodological quality assessment form the
40 research articles selected for this review process. Further prior to inclusion of these research
articles in the research process, the researchers included critical appraisal tool (CASP tool) for
systematic review so that the effectiveness of the included articles could be included in the
research process (Clark et al., 2014). Besides to extract the data from the research articles
included for the study, MAStARI DATA extraction instrument had been selected for the review
process by the researchers.

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Literature review and search process
The systematic review conducted in this research paper was focused on identifying the
impact of occupational sharp objects and the effect of it on the student nursing professionals. The
systematic review process was conducted in this research process in six stages such as searching
the research articles, conducting appropriate screening of the research articles, conducting
critical appraisal using the CASP tools, extracting data from the research process, and finally
aggregating the data to conduct proper data collection (Hambridge, Nichols & Endacott, 2016).
Several databases were searched to collect research articles compatible to the research
process, such as CINAHL, BMJ journal collection, Cochrane library, Medline, Pub Med, UK
Pub Med central, Psyc Net and Pysc Info and EBSCO and Science Direct were selected for the
research process. Further, the grey research articles which were selected for the research process
were Google Scholar, British Library Electronic Online Service, NHS journals and national
research register to collect the research articles for the process (Hambridge, Nichols & Endacott,
2016).
The appropriateness of the research process was determined by imposing several
inclusion and exclusion criteria in the systematic review process so that appropriate and accurate
research articles could be collected. The inclusion criteria included for the process was mention
of occupational injuries of nursing professionals using scalpels, sutures, needles, stitch cutters,
and glass scissors (Hambridge, Nichols & Endacott, 2016). Further to determine the relevancy of
the research, a timeline was set from 1980 to 2014 and for the research process, both qualitative
and quantitative research articles were included in the study. Further, to determine the
effectiveness of the research process, the CASP tool was selected as National Institute for Health